Luis Alfonso Jimenez

Howl

Luis Jimenez’s howling coyote extends from the artist’s career-long thematic musings on the southwestern United States. Made in bronze, Howl depicts a life-size coyote perched on a small rock. Revealing a thick mane, its lower body is held together by protruding ribs and hairless skin.

Coyotes appeared throughout the artist’s life in physical and abstract forms. Used as hunting dogs, coyotes also hold a cultural resonance stemming from Spanish colonialism of the Americas. Referring to a derogatory socio-racial classification used in historic New Spain to describe a specific combination of Indigenous and Spanish ancestry, the ‘coyote’ in Howl represents Jimenez’s own familial lineage through his children.